Report to the alumni

REPORT

TO THE ALUMNI

winter, 1976-77

special giving edition

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where our pride is!

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Dear Friends,

Will you help to increase by one person the total number of lUP alumni who contribute much needed
financial support each year to our alma mater through Alumni Annual Giving? Our major objective this year is to
increase by a substantial margin the number of loyal alumni who are financial contributors. We need your
participation, whatever the amount of your gift.

Why should you give? First, because state appropriations cover only half the cost of a student's education
at lUP. Public funds and student fee^ provide only for the most basic expenses, only for an "adequate" higher
education. If you believe, as I do, that an Indiana education has always-been and must always be not just
adequate but superior, then your gift is truly the "margin of excellence" for this fine institution.

I'm sure that most of our more' than 35,000 colleagues share the belief that no dollar value could possibly
express the worth of our Indiana experiences in our own lives. But even beyond that richly deserved loyalty and
respect, we all benefit every day from the continuous advance of the quality of the University's educational
programs. Our own degrees are only as prestigious as the institution which granted them.

We can be proud that lUP's traditional excellence is recognized by a far wider audience than just its alumni.
In the October, 1976, issue of Changing Times, the Kiplinger Magazine, Indiana was singled out as one of the
only 64 institutions in the entire nation which offer an education of distinctive quality at a cost less than the
national average. Indiana was the only college or university in Pennsylvania on the list, which included such
institutions as the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, Auburn, Rutgers, the University of
Massachusetts, the University of North Carolina, the University of Texas and the University of Wisconsin. That is
prestigious company!

Exciting things are happening at our alma mater, including two major achievements just since the beginning
of this academic year. In August, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania awarded to I UP a $125,000 grant to
establish a Center for the Study of Labor Relations. Focusing on the development of academic programs in labor
relations with emphasis on the public sector, the Center is the only program of its size and scope in Pennsylvania.
In October, officials of lUP and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia announced the establishment of a
cooperative medical program which will guarantee entrance to medical school annually to 15 lUP graduates upon
satisfactory completion of a jointly developed pre-med program at Indiana.

These advances, and many others equally as significant which could be mentioned, do not happen
accidentally, and they can only continue with your dedicated, committed, regular assistance. Do these
achievements make you feel good, too? Are they worth enough for you to join with us as a regular member of
the Alumni Annual Giving campaign?

We deserve to boast about the accomplishments of our alma mater and about the critical role we are playing
to insure its continued Margin of Excellence. Let's put our money where our pride is!

With sincere best wishes.

Don McPherson '69

President, I UP Alumni Association

What Is the Breezedate Restoration, and Why?

Can I Contribute to Other Projects?

Originally the mansion of the Sutton and Elkin families in
Indiana, Breezedale continues to be restored to its inherent
beauty and stature as an important link with the heritage of
the University campus. Exterior work is nearly complete, but a
great deal is to be done within.

To achieve this, Alumni Annual Giving is essential. As an
immediate goal, $25,000 in contributions will be required as
soon as possible so that all heating, ventilating, electrical and
mechanical work in the house can be completed. The
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will match this amount.

To take advantage of this opportunity, the University
Alumni Association has decided that all unrestricted giving for
this 1976—77 year will be directed to Breezedale. Beyond the
immediate goal remain many opportunities to furnish and
appoint the house as a truly handsome center of alumni and
student life.

Set among campus residence halls and near student activi-
ties buildings, Breezedale as it is completed will feature some
of the things that are not really present at Indiana now, but
should be. In the plan are warm, intimate recital rooms,
appropriate reception areas, a reading den/library, comfortable
guest rooms, and a suite of Alumni Association offices.

Together with the future promise of the project, present
and continuing emphasis of the restoration through alumni
giving will follow through on financial support already
extended. Particular expenditures have included $7200 as
consulting and architectural fees, $7700 for painting and trim
work of the total exterior, and $1800 for period wallpaper for
the full interior.

John Sutton Hall is soon to be renovated and restored
to its prominence as the historic center of the Univer-
sity. The Alumni Association is now preparing to take
part in a major, unified giving campaign to make this
possible. Particulars are to be reached in advance of the
1977-78 year.

Alumni interested in extending advance contributions
to John Sutton Hall, or to a University Museum that has
been initiated centering on the Blue Room and sur-
rounding areas, may indicate this within the annual
giving response envelope enclosed.

Yes. Together with the Breezedale project, your Alumni
Association promotes a number of special, restricted projects.
Individuals contributing to Alumni Annual Giving know in
every case the general purpose to which their gifts will be
devoted, and may direct contributions to any purpose.

Included within the Master Plan for Alumni Giving, first
adopted in 1973, are —

Library Resources. Continuing support of further book
acquisitions for Stabley Library, important to the academic
integrity of the University. In 1975—76, alumni contributed
nearly $3200 for this purpose, and this has been placed at the
discretion of the campus librarians.

Academic Enrichment. This further establishes the backing
of particular programs enhancing campus life, such as endowed
chairs extended to visiting, distinguished professors, faculty
and student research, performances in the arts, and related
activities.

This past summer the Academic Enrichment fund partially
underwrote a University interdisciplinary course in "Shake-
speare and Living English History." The full, highly acclaimed
BBC television series "Elizabeth R" was shown, public invited,
and Stabley Library featured an extensive exhibit secured
through the renowned Folger Shakespeare Library of Wash-
ington, D. C.

Scholarships. This establishes a principle for the extending
of academic and special interest scholarships and loans,
particularly to students for which current campus financial aid
sources prove limited. An original program has been a
scholarship for Arrrsrican Indian students on campus.

The Projects and Annual Giving Committee has pledged for
at least the coming two years financial assistance to selected
graduate students .who are Indiana alumni or their descend-
ents. And the School of Education has initiated a scholarship
honoring retiring Dean George A. W. Stouffer with a beginning
amount of nearly $1000; gifts earmarked for this are wel-
comed.

Scholarships for Sports. Here, alumni have three choices in
contributing for individual student/athlete scholarship grants
— to the Big Indian fund for general purposes, the Sam Smith
fund for football, or the Jack Crossan Memorial for basketball.

The three are administered through the athletic director
and varsity coaches. Crossan and Smith balances are approach-
ing the point where they can become significant. Contribu-
tions to the latter in 1975—76 were highlighted by a $2500 (of
a total of $3500) gift from Michael Gendich '35.

Memorial Contributions. As appropriate memorial recogni-
tion to graduates and friends of Indiana, family and others
may wish to make campus landscaping and beautification
possible. Or, beyond this general account, special projects
honoring particular individuals may be encouraged.

As examples of the latter, alumni chapters have honored
the late Mary Esch, and families of Rose Brennan McManus
and Helen Brennan and of Sara Sevan "Sally" Johnson have
established several particular directions, the latter a women's
athletic scholarship.

Apart from the various restricted funds, the Alumni
Association continues to devote remaining assets of unre-
stricted giving received prior to the adopting of the Master
Plan to special programs such as the following —

— Publishing of the Report to the Alumni news magazine.

— Activities commemorating the University Centennial year
in 1974-75.

— Affording of a $500 cash award annually to the campus
organizations constructing the first prize Homecoming Parade
float.

— Producing of color and sound motion pictures portraying
the University and the campus, the Breezedale Restoration,
and John Sutton Hall.

How Much Should I Give?

How much you can give is really not as important as that you give. If all of Indiana's more than 35,000 alumni would
contribute at the rate of $10 each, you can see just how much this could mean. Business and industry, potential sources of support
in the millions, want to know how many of us care.

Another factor to keep in mind is that Alumni Annual Giving money is "action" money. In great part, it is not invested, but
rather directly extended to underwrite the projects it is appealed for. This means that a $10 contribution can mean more than the
interest borne on $100 invested.

Related opportunities for supporting Indiana can come through matching and deferred giving programs. You may be
associated with a firm that will double your gift; some do even better than that. And there are many deferred plans that can prove
of financial advantage to both lUP and you.

What Are the New "Giving Clubs" . . . And Why?

Contributors to Indiana University of Pennsylvania of $100 or more are specially recognized as President's Associates. Within
this leadership are the new Silver ($500) and Gold ($1000) Societies. This builds on the "Margin of Excellence" Centennial Club
approach of the past two years.

Purposes of this challenge to giving are to highlight today's very real need for understanding and financial support and to
appropriately honor those in a position to extend this to the University. You are invited to accept or again renew your involvement
in this way.

President's Associates receive standing invitations to campus cultural and sports events through an Activity Card, a spring
dinner with Dr. Robert C. Wilburn, President of the University, and special communications leading to greater acquaintance with
lUP's present and future directions.

ALUMNI ANNUAL GIVING 1975-76 - + AND -

Results of Alumni Annual Giving to Indiana University of Pennsylvania of June, 1975, through May, 1976, were not unlike
the well known "Good News/Bad News" comedy routine. There is ample cause for encouragement on the part of Indiana
graduates, but great margin for further impi;ovement.

The "Good News" — The total amount received of approximately $23,000 represents the best giving record to date, with the
exception of the special Centennial year, campaign of 1974—75. Alumni contributing gave at a highly respectable average of
approximately $20, with many forwarding S25 or more.

Further, memberships in the special "Margin of Excellence" giving recognition clubs numbered nearly 60. While this is down
from the Centennial year, when they were initiated, it represents an advance from 1973—74, when fewer than ten graduates
considered this leadership role in giving.

The "Bad News" — For 1975—76, it had been hoped that the Centennial achievement of $40,000 total could be repeated.
And, perhaps of greatest concern to University and alumni leadership, the percentage of graduates contributing in any amount is
disconcerting - about 3% (1000+ of 35,000+).

Individuals contributing at $25 or more through 1975—76 included —

(*- Contributors of $50 or more, **— Centennial Club members contributing $100 or more, ***- Five Hundred Club
member contributing $500, ****President's Associate contributing more than $1000.

Individuals identified below include only those who contributed directly to Alumni Association Annual Giving. We
acknowledge and thank a great many graduates who through 1975—76 supported a number of related programs of benefit to the
University through their giving.)

CLASS OF 1901

'Mrs. Carolyn Schreiner Cort

CLASS OF 1902

'Mrs. Grace Cunningham Miller

CLASS OF 1911

Mrs. Carrie Wicks Fladd
Leon D. Metzger

CLASS OF 1916

Mrs. Helen Murray Brown
Sarah Augusta Turner

CLASS OF 1917

Margaret Borland

Grace Brumbaugh
'Marion Fleck

'Mrs. Audrey Smith Graham
'Mrs. Flossie Wagner Sanford

Mrs. Inez Buchanan Showers

CLASS OF 1918

Mary Marshall
'Mrs. Clare MacPherran Sturdy

CLASS OF 1919

Mrs. Dorothy Newell Connor
Mrs. Margaret Swan McCreary
Hazel Sowash

CLASS OF 1921

Mrs. Sarah Wilson George
Mrs. Clara Fera Litteri
"Mrs. Jessie McHail Wherry

CLASS OF 1922

Dr. and Mrs. H. Carlyle Carson
(Catherine Beswarick)

CLASS OF 1923

'Mrs. Dorothy Fluke Mong

CLASS OF 1924

Pearl Campbell

Mrs. Beatrice Fleming Harvey
'Mrs. Bessie Wherry Noe

CLASS OF 1925

'Mrs. Henrietta Jordan Hughes

CLASS OF 1926

'Mr. and Mrs. William Bush

(Margaret North)
'Mrs. Edith Powell Greco
Mrs. Lucille Drummond Grew

CLASS OF 1927

Mrs. Miriam Truscott Gramling
Mrs. Anna Coleman Home
Mrs. Harriet Dean Weaver

CLASS OF 1928

Mrs. Helen Ifert Dill

CLASS OF 1929

Mrs. Eleanor McClelland Robinson

CLASS OF 1930

Mrs. Leah Richardson McCormick

Mrs. Jean Munnell

Mrs. Mary Reed Sandeen

CLASS OF 1931

'Mrs. Lois McCarrell Brown *

'Helen Davis
'George H. Hocker

Helen Keller

Mrs. Phyllis Glasgow Kittelberger
'Mrs. Emma Leighty Smith

CLASS OF 1932

Mrs. Mary Wirt Elser

Mrs. Grace Stoops McDivitt

Mrs. Julia Armen Smith

CLASS OF 1933

Mrs. Gladys Overholt Bee
Mrs. Dora Fockler Mann
Mrs. Beatrice Gonick Zieve

CLASS OF 1934

'William E. Beyers
*Dr. William E. Brown
'Charles A. Davis

CLASS OF 1935

'Mrs. Marian Cox Burchfield
"Mrs. Clarabel Tweed Davis
'Michael Gendich
'Mrs. Hazel Carroll Saxman
"Mrs. Vera Kelley Taylor

CLASS OF 1936

Mrs. Mildred Weber Brown
*Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. George
(Laura Postlewaite)
Randall H. Tomb

CLASS OF 1937

Charles Berretta
Joseph M. Henry
Clarke F. Hess
'Kathryn Long
Mrs. Margaret Robb Richards

CLASS OF 1938

Mrs. Martha Paulson Adams
*Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. McVitty
(Claire Cressman)
Mrs. Emma Martinelli Nuzzo
Marguerite Rankin

CLASS OF 1940

*J. Stewart Johnston
*Col. John T. Joseph
•Mrs. Dorothy North Schrock

CLASS OF 1941

**Sam N. Constantino
"Mrs. Clara Quinn Hull

Mrs. Mary Eby Kaufman
'•Robert S. Kirk
"Mrs. Theda Miller Stauffer

Emma Jean Truxal

CLASS OF 1942

Serenus W. Dossi

John T. Kolody

Mrs. Virginia Pugliese Vaughn

CLASS OF 1943

Mrs. Gladys Wenning Dossi
Mrs. Edna Smider Eddy

•Mrs. Martha Nesbitt Palmer
Mrs. Eileen Poister

•Mrs. Alberta Zeltner Riggs

CLASS OF 1944

Mrs. Jane King Harris
•Mrs. Elizabeth Bush McCown
Mrs. Margaret Streams Tomb

CLASS OF 1945

**Mrs. Nancy Race Warner

CLASS OF 1952

William H.Williams, Jr.
•Mrs. Carol Mitchell Kline

CLASS OF 1953

Lt. Col. Pauline Beckley
Mrs. Patricia Myers Gerhan
Mrs. Eleanor Paterick Commons

CLASS OF 1954

Joanne Hardick
Robert R. Weisner

CLASS OF 1955

•Ruth Marshall

•Robert P. Scanga

•Mrs. Marjorie Warren Scott

CLASS OF 1956

•H. F. Criste

•Roy Daugherty

*Dr. and Mrs. William C. Harris

(Faye Shaffer)
*Dr. Kathleen Jones
•M. Thomas Moore
•Mrs. Christine Lykos Sechrist

CLASS OF 1957

•Dorothy Palmer
Dr. Nancy Zebraskey Nelson

CLASS OF 1958

Ruth Datz
•Mrs. Joyce Bonnell Polinsky
•Mrs. Norma Freliche Zimmer

CLASS OF 1959

Lt. Col. Basil J. Hobar
•Mrs. Elizabeth Wiggins Kearney
•Mrs. Mary Kay Kennedy Reschini

CLASS OF 1960

Mrs. Caroline Anderson Beck
•Louise Bloom

Mrs. Shelly McCollum DiNunzio

Mrs. Sara Bitner Lowe
•Mrs. Naomi Kipp Smith

Mrs. Betty Halferty Thalgott
"Elizabeth Young

CLASS OF 1961

Nancy Myers
•James Kearney

CLASS OF 1962

Janice Hecht
Donald T. Rinkus

CLASS OF 1963

•Mrs. Louise Wozniak Barnes
Marjorie McHenry
William H. Thompson
Carol Waugaman

CLASS OF 1964

Linda Getts
Gordon C. Harrier
•Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Judge
(Elaine Reschini)
Donald R. Rigone

CLASS OF 1965

James R. Barr

'•William L. Beck

Mrs. Janice Weller Bell
Dr. Charles D. Cashdollar
Mrs. Sarah Purdy Morrow
Patricia Smith

••Mrs. Ruth Stacy

CLASS OF 1966

Anthony P. Frattaroli '
Michael F. Spingola ,,

CLASS OF 1967 \,

Larry E. Leard
Roby A. Rowe

CLASS OF 1968

Raymond F. Lusebrink, Jr.
•Linda Schaeffer
Mrs. Jean Oravec Smith
Diane Tomlinson.

CLASS OF 1969

Mrs. Judith Walton Cherry
Jere L. Cowden
••Sandra Mack
*Mr. and Mrs. Donald McPherson
(Linda Leighty)

Mr. and Mrs. William Murray

(Billie Spotts)
Joyce Posavetz
William R. Smith, Jr.
•Mrs. Flornell Resley

CLASS OF 1970

Carole Smith
Larry F. Vaughn

CLASS OF 1971

Rodger D. Beatty
•Robert H. Butler
•Robert E. Dubler

Stephen W. Rothert

Linda Smith

Mrs. Lana Nonnenberg Wojton

CLASS OF 1972

Patricia Gibson
Dennis F. Lezzer

CLASS OF 1973

Janet Atutes
Daniel P. Brownlee
Mrs. Janet Pagnanelli Conley
•Allan R. Ellstrom
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Over
(Jacqueline Buckingham)

CLASS OF 1974

William V. Conley

CLASS OF 1975

Gregory J. Wojton

FORMER FACULTY

Dr. A. Dale Allen
•Mrs. Gladys Fisher
•Mrs. Ann Jones

Anna O'Toole

Alice Schuster
•Mrs. Leola Norberg

ALUMNI CHAPTERS

•Beaver Valley
•New York City
•Pittsburgh Unit
*Tri-Townships

FRIENDS

•Zane O. Wilson

CLASS OF 1946

Mrs. Ester Horger Hawk

Mrs. Emmeline Mehlman Sellers

CLASS OF 1948

••Zoe Irene Ross

CLASS OF 1949

**Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lepley

(Margaret McHenry)
••Mrs. Doris Wilkinson Mosch
**Mrs. Elizabeth Reisinger Stanton
Dr. Margaret Shumaker
•Robert O. Warren

CLASS OF 1950

Fred Cornell
•Mrs. Ruth Goodling Riegle
•Mrs. Helen Frick Schwartz

Stanley Whippo

CLASS OF 1951

•*Dr. and Mrs. James W. Laughlin
(Barbara Anderson)

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701

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